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1919 Britain's Government Code & Cypher School Established
1969: William Friedman died.
1942 COMINT Station Established on Guadalcanal
1953: First NSA Newsletter
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1952: NSA Established. LTG Ralph Canine, Director.
1918: The "Seneca" field code was released.
1989: Fall of Berlin wall began.
1944: Captain Joseph Wenger became head of OP-20-G.
1895: Ralph J. Canine, first DIRNSA was born.
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1918: Armistice signed ending WWI.
1917: AEF Radio Intelligence Section opened intercept site at Souilly, France.
1912: Herbert O. Yardley hired as State Department code clerk.
1989: Center for Cryptologic History was established.
1918: 1st Fixed U.S. Field Station in Houlton, ME.
1921: W. Friedman appointed Chief Cryptanalyst for the Signal Corps
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1970: Attempt to rescue POWs from North Vietnam.
1969: First permanent ARPANET link established.
1941: Herbert Yardley fired by Canada's National Research Council.
1976: Data Encryption Standard Approved
1956: Lt Gen John A. Samford, USAF, became DIRNSA.
1957: Lt Gen Samford Officially Opened the NSA OPS1 Building
1960: VADM Laurence Frost, USN, became DIRNSA.
1616: Birth date of John Wallis
1866: First Encoded American Diplomatic Telegram
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1986: Ronald Pelton, former NSA analyst, arrested for spying.
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